It's taken me a while, but I've finally posted the slides from the two talks I gave at TechDays in Paris
Introduction to F# (beginner)
F# and Parallel Programming (joint talk with Robert Pickering, slides here - Robert's slides cover web services...

Brian and Chris have been writing some great blog posts of late on learning F#. I can highly recommend these ones in particular:
F# in 20 Minutes - Part I , by Chris
New F# users: some tips to help you become productive more quickly , by Brian...

[ Note: we have made a minor update to 1.9.4 called 1.9.4.19 . The download links below point to this release. If you need 1.9.4.17 go to our downloads page . ]
[ Note: download links updated to point to the MSI correctly ]
We're very glad...

Over the last few months the F# team has been diving deep into the technical work needed to productize F#. In this post I'd like to give a bit of a picture for what that means and how the team has been ramping up on our work.
Firstly, the team! In...

On Friday Kean Walmsley posted an excellent article on Using F# Asynchronous Workflows to simplify concurrent programming in AutoCAD .I've quoted some it below.
There are two things I especially like about this post. First, Kean's code is very clean...

Hi all,
An update to the F# 1.9.3 release has been posted to the Microsoft Research Downloads site. Additional changes between1.9.3.7 and 1.9.3.14 are:
Constructed classes may now be mutually recursive with other types, fixing an incompletness...

Greg Neverov (of active patterns fame) has placed an implementation of Software Transactional Memory for F# up on hubFS . Here's the description:
I have written a library for using software transactional memory in F#. The library exposes memory...

F# is on the podcasts again! Scott Hanselman interviewed Dustin Campbell who gives a compelling description of F# and functional programming. Dustin also has some fun notes on how to talk on a podcast :-)
He's has also started a blog series on F# ...

The F# team continue to have a small number of positions open for compiler and language tools experts. Positions can be based in Cambridge, UK or Redmond.
If you're interested in helping to bring a typed functional programming language into Visual...

The book Expert F# is now available from book sellers! It's been shipping for a while, but there were some early reports of delivery delays so I delayed in announcing it.
As regular readers will know, the book is by myself, Adam Granicz and Antonio...

John Liao has an interesting series of F# programming posts, with lots of samples. Many of the WPF topics are taken from Petzold's book Applications = Code + Markup: A Guide to the Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation .
Interactive exploration...

Stephan Tolksdorf has been a regular F# user of late and has provided us with much excellent feedback, including bug reports and design suggestions.
Stephan has just announced version 0.4 of FParsec , an F# adaptation of Parsec , the popular parser...

Dan Ciruli is director of products over at Digipede . He's recently been experimenting with F# programming and the Digipede Network and has posted a code sample showing how to distribute F# calculations across a grid using the Digipede Framework SDK ...

A couple of weeks ago saw the release of the CTP of the Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework ( download ), This is one the major technologies currently under development at Microsoft for parallel and concurrent programming and provides a great mix...

Harry Pierson of Microsoft Enterprise Applications Services has been looking a lot at F# recently. He has a great series of posts exploring the language, and some good suggestions and observations too. Harry will be starting a series on "Practical Parsing...

[ Update: The release candidate has been updated to F# 1.9.3.14. The additional changes are documented with the release notes below ]
I'm very glad to say that an updated release candidate for F# 1.9.3 is now available ( MSI , ZIP ). This is F# 1.9...

Byron Cook , of Terminator fame, has just been looking at using F# in conjunction with the Z3 theorem prover , a great new .NET and native component out of Microsoft Research Redmond.
Recent work on F# 's math libraries, together with the latest...

Luke Hoban is now full time as program manager on F#, and has just posted a short introduction about himself and the language :
...As of a few weeks ago, I've traded in my C# Compiler PM role for the newly created F# PM job! As you can probably...

Yesterday I mentioned that F# is making an appearance at TechEd Developer this week.
As part of this you have the chance to meet the one and only Tomáš Petříček who is helping out on the Visual Studio Ask the Experts booth for the week along with Luke...

Daniele over on hubFS has been doing interesting things with AutoDesk and F# in the last few days. Take a look at this link:
How to write an Autodesk Inventor Add-In using F#
Coincidentally, Kean Walmsley has written his first AutoCAD application...

I've just arrived in Barcelona, for TechEd Developers. What an event! First, on the product side, there are just so many great things going on: Visual Studio 2008 is on show, the Microsoft Sync Framework has been announced, the ultra-cool Popfly shows...

The F# team is hiring! This position is for a QA engineer on the F# team. From the Microsoft website :
We are looking for an experienced Software Design Engineer in Test to work on testing the F# language and compiler. Opportunities...

The F# team are hiring! We have two positions open right now. The first is a software development engineer specializing in Visual Studio.
We’re looking for an exceptional developer to work on integration with the Visual Studio editor and debugger,...

At last! We've finally sent off the very last proofs of Expert F# to Apress - this time the index, TOC etc. Adam, Antonio and myself are grateful to have Erik Meijer writing the foreword for us, and Apress are dealing with the small metter of putting...